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- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Blushing Peacock
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- SOCIETY
- Blushing Peacock
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Under fire, the head of NBC News is fired--ummm, "voluntarily"
- resigns
- </p>
- <p> If somewhere in the universe there is a hell for journalists,
- it probably resembles the current condition of NBC News. Last
- month Dateline NBC stars Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips
- delivered a stunning on-air apology for its report on the safety
- of GM trucks, which showed a pickup catching fire in a test
- crash but did not reveal that incendiary devices had been
- attached to the vehicle to help ensure a blaze. A week later,
- anchor Tom Brokaw expressed his regrets for several aspects of
- a Nightly News report about environmental abuses on an Idaho
- river. It featured footage of "dead" fish--but the supposedly
- deceased denizens of the deep were only stunned as part of an
- experiment. Clearly, someone's head was due to roll, and the
- rollee turned out to be the top man himself: Michael Gartner,
- president of NBC News. Gartner issued a statement that insisted
- he had planned to announce his departure in the spring,
- acknowledged "the publicity of late" and his hope that the
- announcement would "take the spotlight off of all of us," but
- did not otherwise link his exit to the recent debacles.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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